375- Audio Guide to the Imperfections of a Perfect Masterpiece
23 October 2019 - 27 minsTo help celebrate its 60th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum teamed up with 99% Invisible to offer visitors a guided audio experience of the museum. Even if you've never been to the Guggenheim Museum, you probably recognize it. From the outside, the building is a light gray spiral, and from the inside, the art is displayed on one long ramp that curves up towards a glass skylight in the ceiling. We’re going to take the greatness of this building as a given. What we’re going to focus on are the oddities, the accretions, the interventions that reveal a different kind of genius. Not just the genius of Frank Lloyd Wright, and his bold, original vision, but the genius of all the people that made...
Series Episodes
581- It's Howdy Doody Time!
How an ugly puppet created television as we know it
37 mins
7 May Finished
579 BONUS- Towers of Silence: Vulture Conservation
In this bonus episode, Lasha talks about extra reporting she did for Towers of Silence on the current state of vulture conservation.
32 mins
3 May Finished
580- Mr Yuk
Our pal Gillian Jacobs takes us through the history of poison control and the yucky face meant to warn children about the dangers lurking in their kitchen cabinets
56 mins
30 April Finished
579- Towers of Silence
How the loss of vultures in India has put an ancient burial tradition in crisis
1 hour 11 mins
23 April Finished
The Power Broker: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Featuring the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional district, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and covering the second section of Part 4, chapters 16-20.
2 hours 39 mins
19 April Finished
578- Anything's Pastable: Eat Sauté Love
Dan Pashman embarks on an epic trip across Italy in search of lesser-known pasta dishes — and to learn about the evolution of pasta more broadly.
44 mins
16 April Finished
